BTW’s Rodrieon Dillard tops Week 26 Shreveport Times Athlete of the Week voting
BTW’s Rodrieon Dillard garnered enough votes this week to win the fifth annual Shreveport Times online poll for Athlete of the Week, sponsored by Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, the Shreveport-Bossier Sports Commission and Silmon and Cosse Orthodontics.
A standout basketball player for the Lions, Dillard becomes the first BTW athlete to win in the non-football poll for the 2023-24 school year. He joins previous winners that include Benton’s Claire Allen and Brody Hutchison, along with Caddo Magnet’s Elena Pizarro and Calvary’s Jackson Burney.
Dillard and his supporters accumulated 21,054 votes, a solid 40.9% of the 51,358 votes cast in the weekly online recognition. Those numbers allowed Dillard to top a field of 14 additional candidates, including North DeSoto Ciera Orgeron, who finished in second place with and impressive 15,303 votes (29.8%).
Dillard will receive a duffle bag, a boxed lunch combo and some additional swag courtesy of Raising Cane’s.
Others on the 26th ballot of the school year were Carter White, Airline baseball; Miller Davis, Benton golf; Catie Miller, Byrd soccer; Thomas Kamberov, Caddo Magnet soccer; Kate Jones, Ruston basketball; Kiley Cooper, Southwood basketball; Ben Bienvenu, St. Mary’s basketball; Kaleb Williams, Parkway basketball; Jaila Marshall, Huntington basketball; Justin Slade, Bossier basketball; JD McDonald, Captain Shreve basketball; Kamyra Turner, Haughton basketball and Cameron Parker, Minden basketball.
They were chosen because of their performance the previous week or because their names were submitted by their coach. The Times poll is posted each Monday at shreveporttimes.com with a new slate of student-athletes in high school sports other than football.
The Times online only poll runs through Thursday midnight. The poll includes northwest Louisiana athletes competing in volleyball, cross country, swimming, cheerleading, basketball, soccer, wrestling, powerlifting, indoor and outdoor track, baseball, softball, golf, tennis, bowling, gymnastics and fishing while those sports are in season.
Jimmy Watson covers Louisiana sports for the USA TODAY Network. Email him at jwatson@shreveporttimes.com and follow him on Twitter @JimmyWatson6.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
Week 1: Elena Pizarro, Caddo Magnet swimming
Week 2: Claire Allen, Benton cross country
Week 3: Brody Hutchison, Benton cross country
Week 4: Josiah Dang, Parkway swimming
Week 5: Sidney Hicks, Natchitoches Central volleyball
Week 6: Raylon Bailey, Airline volleyball
Week 7: Jackson Burney, Calvary cross country
Week 8: Alexandra Campanella, Calvary volleyball
Week 9: Ava Frith, Airline volleyball
Week 10: Zachary Seaton, Caddo Magnet cross country
Week 11: Analyse Fuqua, Northwood cheerleading
Week 12: Audrey Jordan, Caddo Magnet soccer
Week 13: Logan Olsen, Airline wrestling
Week 14: Blake Guin, Providence Academy basketball
Week 15: Danon Walker, Airline wrestling
Week 16: Abbie Hooper, Haughton basketball
Week 17: Mikey Washington, North DeSoto wrestling
Week 18: Kingston Charles, Airline wrestling
Week 19: Caden Robison, North DeSoto wrestling
Week 20: Jackson Larkins, Airline wrestling
Week 21: Abigail Jacobs, Benton soccer
Week 22: Natalie Davis, Haughton wrestling
Week 23: Ethan Plunkett, Parkway wrestling
Week 24: John Rushing, Byrd soccer
Week 25: Kalli Cosse, Byrd soccer
Week 26: Rodrieon Dillard, BTW basketball
Preseason Fan’s Choice POY: Sicily Fontaine, Airline volleyball
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